[1] Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

[2][3][4][5] The Børglum River Formation was deposited in the paleoequatorial marginal seas of Laurentia during the Katian.

[6] The Børglum River is formed on the southern slopes of the Nordkrone.

After leaving the mountains it heads roughly southwards across the desolate territories of the western limit of Melville Land, an unglaciated area.

[1] The river was first mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Lauge Koch during his Cartographic Air Expedition of 1938.